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If you have even a passing interest in listening to digital music - whether it's playing CDs or streaming Spotify tunes on your smartphone - you will probably have heard of the term "high-resolution audio" (or "hi-res audio"). In the last few years, hi-res audio has slowly but surely hit the mainstream, thanks to the release of more products, streaming services and even smartphones supporting the hi-res standards. Why should you care? If you want the best music experience possible or, at least, better sound quality than you're currently used to, we think hi-res audio is worth investigating. It can be a daunting prospect, and there are many factors involved: what exactly constitutes hi-res...

Bill Roberson/Digital Trends While iPhones and iPads are attractive, well-designed gadgets, they do come with strict limitations when it comes to the type of audio files they will accept — Apple isn’t known for playing nice with files, except those the company sells you. It can be frustrating to drop thousands on high-end hardware, only to be limited by the Apple ecosystem. If you’re a fan of hi-res audio, you may be wondering how to get your iOS device to play nicely with a decidedly un-Apple high-resolution audio file that is among the most popular file formats: FLAC. Our handy guide will give you all the tools you need, letting you know exactly what FLAC files are,...

Tutorial - Editing an Existing Audio File Objective The objective of this tutorial is to learn how to edit an audio file. To achieve this objective, we are going to import an existing sound file, remove all but 10 seconds of this file, apply a 1-second fade-out at the end, export the results, and play it in your favorite audio player. These steps will introduce the basic steps commonly used when editing the contents of an audio file. Step 1: Find a file to edit Audacity can import many common audio file formats, including WAV , AIFF , and MP3 . If the optional FFmpeg library is installed, a larger range of formats, including WMA and the audio content of most video files, can be...

Audio files come in all types and sizes. And while we may all be familiar with MP3, what about AAC, FLAC, OGG, or WMA? Why do so many standards exist? Which ones should you care about and which ones can you ignore? It’s actually quite simple once you realize that all audio formats fall into three major categories. Once you know which category you want, all you have to do is pick the format within that category that best suits your needs. Uncompressed Audio Formats Uncompressed audio is exactly what it sounds like: real sound waves that have been captured and converted to digital format without any further processing. As a result, uncompressed audio files tend to be the most accurate...

Music File Formats There are loads of music file formats, but, for most people, we only need to look at a few. You can download digital music files from thousands of different places, but the quality varies hugely. It's useful to know a bit about how they work so you can pick the right one to convert your beloved music into! After all, who wants to hear muddy, low quality Liszt or Schubert? Definitely not me... All music formats "compress" the file, making it smaller. This makes it easier to download from the internet, and it takes up much less space on your computer hard drive or iPod. However, some information from the original performance is lost, which sometimes results in poor sound...

Want to send a music file with WhatsApp for iPhone? For Android users it’s easy to send a song via WhatsApp, because it’s the operating system itself that offers the option. For iPhone users, it’s another matter. WhatsApp for iOS allows you to send pictures, videos, contacts and geographic location…but not music. Fortunately, sending an MP3 via WhatsApp for iPhone is still possible. All you need is the help of a free app that offers an Open With option. There are a few of these, but iZip seems to be the most suitable for our purpose. Here, I’ll take you through how to send an audio file with WhatsApp for iPhone. How to send audio files using iZip 4. Tap ...

FLAC is a music format that offers true CD quality and is playable on everything from Sonos to iOS. In the late 1990s, one of the original portable music file formats -- the MP3 -- was causing quite a bit of bother. It had earned itself a reputation as a pirate format, mainly due to the sharing site Napster, which was at the height of its notoriety. While MP3 inevitably prevailed, there is a much better choice for high-quality music, and it's gaining in popularity. Having enjoyed some exposure following the official release of the PonoPlayer and affiliated web store, FLAC is a musical file format that offers bit-perfect copies of CDs but at half the size. It is compatible with many phones (...

[su_spacer] Why is AAC a better version of MP3s? What sets WAV apart? Why is FLAC so popular? And most importantly: which music format is best for you? We’ll talk you through three of the biggest players in the file format world, and help you get the best music for your needs. Compressed or Uncompressed? The clue is in the title; uncompressed files are huge. This means they can take up quite a chunk of space on your devices, but for the space you sacrifice, you get an exact copy of the original source audio and will get slightly better sound quality. Lossy or Lossless? There are a lot of ways of dividing compressed file formats up, but the most common by far is the style of...

You are here What Data Compression Does To Your Music Can you hear the difference between an MP3 and a WAV file? We explain how lossy audio data compression works, and how to spot the tell-tale signs it leaves behind. Analogue consumer dissemination formats for audio have all had their problems. Listen to some vinyl and cassette and you're going to experience (on one format or the other) limited dynamic range, wow and flutter, clicks and pops, background noise, tonal inconsistencies, and degraded quality, to name a few. When Compact Disc came along, it offered a relatively convenient format with stable and consistent playback speeds, an increased dynamic range, no added format-induced...